Development

Front End, Back End, Which End?

July 27, 2012



By Dale Cruse Throughout the history of the web, job titles haven’t meant much to those of us actually doing the work. One Webmaster to Rule Them All It’s no wonder: In the earliest days of [...]

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JavaScript

Converting OPML to HTML using JavaScript

July 26, 2012



We have been working on workflows this week at SignedOn. One of our workflows includes a neat mind-mapping tool called iMindMap. The tool allows us to think visually, while categorizing information quickly and re-organize complex interdependent [...]

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OPML to List jQuery Plugin code sample

Touch Events

Adding iOS Touch Events to jQuery Color Picker

July 16, 2012



Today we were working on some JavaScript code for a small HTML5 iPad app. We wanted to use the Farbtastic Color Picker jQuery Plugin to allow users to quickly select from a wide range of colors. [...]

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iOS Touch Events for Farbtastic Color Picker being tested on the iPad

CSS

3D Transform Plane Clipping Bug

May 30, 2012



While working on a CSS3 tool we bumped into a nasty little bug with CSS3 3D Transforms. This bug is seen when two planes intersect. When two planes intersect they should be “clipped”. This means that [...]

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Intersecting Plane Clipping Bug

WebGL

Painting WebGL Models with Blender

May 29, 2012



This short video tutorial demonstes how to use Blender to paint directly onto a 3D object, export the object to Collada format alongside the .png texture, and then use CubicVR.js to render the 3D object in [...]

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Painting Blender Objects for WebGL

JavaScript

The FizzBuzz Test

May 22, 2012



There is an awesome little programmer test called “FizzBuzz”. The challenge is to write a program that prints out numbers from 1 to 100; except the program must follow these rules: Multiples of 3 must be [...]

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JavaScript

Windowing Transformations

May 10, 2012



Windowing is the process of transforming co-ordinates from one space to another. It is used when scaling and transforming the view of a program. For example: when you zoom into an image, the original image data [...]

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Windowing Transformations